Waikato Business News March/April 2023

““Fosters’ communication
skills and proactive
approach sets them
apart. They didn’t just
come to us with problems,
they came with solutions.”
”
Hatish Padharia, Project Manager
for Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand
Staff members have a bigger, brighter workplace,
patients have easy access to purpose-built facilities
and the automatic doors the nurses had been
hankering after for 10 years are finally installed.
Fosters eight-month refurbishment of the Waikato
Regional Diabetes Centre at 26 Clarence St in
Hamilton was a resounding success.
Fosters Maintain team carried out the diabetes
centre revamp in 2022, building new consulting
rooms, upgrading existing facilities, installing a new
phlebotomy lab and toilet and relocating podiatry
rooms.
Charge nurse manager Vikki Lowe-Reid worked
closely with the Fosters team over that time and was
blown away by their friendliness and professionalism.
“The communication was outstanding,” she said.
“Almost every day we would sit down with the
Fosters project manager and figure out how to make
all these renovations happen while keeping the
centre functioning around staff and patients. We sort
of became a left and right team and I think that’s why
this project was so successful.”
She was also impressed with Fosters’ local subcontractors,
who were respectful and sensitive to
those around them.
“It’s a live site and for all of the contractors it would
have been very, very difficult because they can’t just
shut an area off and go for it,” Vikki said. “They had
to mind a lot of things and they did very well.”
Hatish Padharia from Perficio Consultants Ltd,
appointed by Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand
Waikato to manage the upgrade, agreed that project
management was a key factor in the project’s
success.
“Fosters’ communication skills and proactive
approach sets them apart,” he said.
“They didn’t just come to us with problems, they
came with solutions.”
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